Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

The only thing that is different from before is not the horizontal plaque hanging on the door, but the vertical plaque hanging on the doorpost...

Hanjiang Trading Company—once again!

However, for the sake of Zheng's reputation, the door plaque of Zheng's business is still retained.

After Fang Zhenghua returned, he removed the sugar from the counter and reappeared...

Uh……

wrong!

Zheng Hongkui signed a contract with Hui merchants.

In the name of the Zheng family, Zheng Hongkui made a guarantee to Huizhou merchants that they would no longer sell sugar or cotton yarn within two years.

After all, the contract was signed...

How could Lao Fang prevent Zheng Hongkui from coming to Taiwan?

Therefore, Sugar-Hanjiang Company will no longer operate.

Cotton yarn - Hanjiang Company will no longer be in business...

After all, business needs to be upgraded!

Facing a mature market, the best way to compete is to misplace competition!

A classic business case in later generations is the battle for the rise of domestically produced cars.

What did they do in the face of the monopolized automobile market?

Misplaced competition!

I use the price of your low-level products to let consumers buy cars of a higher level, or even two levels higher!

Founder-oriented business war and people's livelihood commodities are such methods.

I use ultra-low profit margins to seize your livelihood market.

My selling price is even lower than your production price!

Come and fight the business war!

You're losing money - and I, because of technological changes, can still make a profit!

Are you engaged in business war?

I wish for it!

And “What about emerging technologies?”

Founder adopted the famous IQ tax and so-and-so nail operation.

Use the ultra-high profit margin to use part of it to ask the media to promote it - to cultivate the consumer awareness that "purchasing is a status symbol".

Just spend a little profit to spread the awareness...

You can harvest countless iron fans...

Under this saucy operation, a certain group of car owners will be kicked out immediately if they dare to say that this thing is not good...

Look, this consumer group is well cultivated!

Uh!

Do not!

Lao Fang even skipped this step!

He directly released a message - if you buy my high-end products, you can save your wealth and life...

Just buy an expensive set of "IQ tax" and give it a worthless wood carving...

Successfully brought back boatloads of money...

……

Inside Hanjiang Trading Company——

On the shelf that says "sugar", there are all kinds of candies.

This thing not only looks good, but also has various flavors.

It is durable and can be used by children!

The key is--

The selling price is lower than before!

Regarding people's livelihood products, Lao Fang still has a bottom line...

Even the original cotton yarn that was the main product has been replaced by cotton.

But the price is - only two cents more expensive than buying cotton to spin into cloth yourself...

But it saves countless labor!

The poor people are already living a miserable life, so they have benefited from it.

That's the best way to promote it.

It is also the best way to seize the market!

(The textile machine Zhu Youjian took out, the cloth weaved is the "foreign cloth" in the mouth of the old people in later generations.

For the same piece, because the silk thread is thinner, the cotton used is less than one-third of the homespun cloth.

In addition, due to technological reforms, the labor required is lower.

As a result, the production cost is less than one-fifth of Huang Daopo's textile machine. )

As for whether the Huizhou Chamber of Commerce will say that "Zheng's Firm" violated the contract...

Lao Fang is right!

He didn't sell sugar, let alone cotton yarn!

Zheng's reputation is intact...

The contract - it didn’t say that we were not allowed to sell candy or cotton!

As for why Zheng is willing to help Fang Zhenghua - Zhu Youjian has given so many benefits, does Zheng Hongkui still care about his bullshit reputation?

What Lao Zheng is thinking about right now is to capture the Ezo land and become the great overseas lord of the Ming Dynasty!

Besides, in the eyes of the Jiangnan gentry, the Zheng family was just a group of pirates.

He has a shitty reputation!

To put it in a bad way, when the benefits are big enough, the face...

What is this?

What's more, what Zhu Youjian took out was to seal the country!

What benefit could be more important than this?

What's more, it's a commercial fraud that is dishonest...

Real business wars are always so ordinary...

……

This time, Founder brought more goods.

What he has to do is to slap all the Hui merchants to death!

In order to prevent Huizhou merchants from taking risks...

There is also a fleet that is so huge that even the Xiaoming court in Nanjing trembles - Zheng Sen's navy.

On the ship, cannons were pointed angrily at both sides of the strait.

From time to time, there would be a burst of shelling.

According to Fang Zhenghua - they are all from the company, so they are not familiar with their skills...

It's okay to rehearse and rehearse...

It's all right!

In the fleet, there are even smaller warships, spitting out black smoke, but without sails or oars, sailing across the sea.

This is a new product of Handu Junzhou Shipbuilding Bureau.

According to the standards of this era, it was called a three thousand material ship.

(Because after the Qing Dynasty, almost all historical materials except for the classics and history were destroyed.

It is no longer possible to know what "material" actually represents?

At present, there are three mainstream opinions: first, load capacity; second, volume; third, manufacturing wood.

According to the measurements of unearthed ships from the Song and Ming dynasties, the material is most likely the volume.

That is, the volume from below the deck to the bilge.

1000 materials, equivalent to 10 cubic feet. )

These ships were not painted in the bright red color that was customary in this era.

Zhu Youjian stipulated that from now on, all military ships produced by the Handu Shipbuilding Bureau should be painted gray-blue.

These ships, which were spitting out black smoke, had sharp beak-like front ends that tilted out of the water.

The rear end is a flush design.

There are two huge paddle wheels on both sides of the ship, making splashes of water.

The paddle wheel actually appeared very early.

As early as 418, the paddle wheel was invented.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zu Chongzhi improved this invention and invented the thousand-mile ship, which was powered by oxen.

During the Tang Dynasty, Li Xilie rebelled, and Li Gao, the fifth grandson of Li Shimin, once again took out a paddle steamer.

In 1161, Emperor Wan Yanliang of the Jin Kingdom, who dreamed of "riding the first peak of Mount Wu", personally led an army of 40 to the Southern Song Dynasty, but was defeated by Yu Yunwen's paddle steamer (called a chariot and boat at the time).

In 1168, Shi Zhengzhi built a large paddle steamer with a load capacity of 200 tons.

In 1862, when the British army invaded Wusongkou, Jiaxing County Prime Minister Gong Zhenlin built five paddle-wheel vehicles and ships based on privately preserved ancient books and participated in the defense of Wusongkou.

Although this battle failed...

However, the British scholar Joseph Needham, in his description of paddle steamers, wrote this sentence in a confusing way -

"This kind of boat (paddle steamer) must have been handed down in China..."

Why did John Li say that?

At that time, the Chinese, who were at the bottom of the world, did not know it.

However, after cultural relics were unearthed again and again, China was able to rectify its origins...

We finally get it...

It was written in the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, about the drawings of paddle steamers.

In this time and space where the Qing government had not deliberately destroyed technology, paddle steamers once again appeared on the Yangtze River.